Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate in Seoul's National Assembly swirled around a smuggling scandal concerning some 92 tons of saccharin that had been illegally imported from Japan by an arm of the multimillion-dollar Samsung business combine. Charges of government involvement flew from the backbenches; indignant silence wreathed the Cabinet ministers of Premier II Kwon Chung. Then tall, tough Kim Do Han, 49, an independent Assemblyman from Seoul with a reputation as a street brawler, took the rostrum to question the Cabinet. With him he carried a three-gallon can marked "saccharin...
What spurs on preservationists is that the project is controlled by an Architect of the Capitol who is not an architect. They recall that J. George Stewart, 76, an engineer and onetime Congressman, was responsible for the multimillion-dollar fiasco of the Rayburn House Office Building across the street south of the Capitol. Stewart's critics were also furious when he used marble in the east front extension...
...though his multimillion-dollar publishing company still demands most of his worktime, and his family-three children and six grandchildren-most of his playtime, Berlin refuses to turn in his keyboard, never looks back for long. "The past is fine," he is fond of saying, "but you can't live there...
Died. Joseph E. Ridder, 80, chairman of Ridder Publications, a multimillion-dollar chain of 24 newspapers (Journal of Commerce, St. Paul Pioneer Press), run by a family dynasty, whose successes allowed him to indulge his love of sports, as he put more than $100,000 into the Minnesota Vikings football team and $750,000 into the yacht Constellation in 1964, when it successfully defended the America's Cup; of uremia; in West Palm Beach...
...Assistant Secretary of the Interior, a farmer and former Governor of North Dakota who became one of the first high Government officials to recognize the unlimited possibilities of desalting sea water, invested $150,000 in federal funds for a pilot desalinization project that was the forerunner of the multimillion-dollar plant currently in use at Guantánamo; of cancer; in Fargo...